Fred Emory’s thorough account of inept snoops at work in the service of tricky Dicky is also now out in paperback. More than 500 absorbing pages on political scandal that, as the blurb has it “cannot be rivalled by fiction”, Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon (Pimlico, ISBN 0 7126 7435 7) costs £12.50.
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